{"id":349918,"date":"2026-01-16T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=349918"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:31:12","slug":"australias-hate-speech-bill-faces-senate-block-after-bondi-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=349918","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Hate Speech Bill Faces Senate Block After Bondi Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 proposes jail terms up to five years for publicly inciting hatred based on race or ethnicity, plus powers to ban extremists from visas and list hate groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Triggered by the December 14, 2025, attack where two Islamic State-inspired gunmen killed 15 at a Sydney celebration, the bill also includes a national gun buyback. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349957\" style=\"width:378px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5.png 490w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-5-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sydney Daily Telegraph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Caroline Di Russo writes this brilliant assessment: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Two radical islamists shot Jews on the beach. In response, the govt introduces a bill which does nothing to prevent radical islamists from shooting Jews at the beach in future. It only stops people talking about the potential for radical islamists to shoot Jews at the beach. See the problem?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet we see even some Jewish community reps rushing to support this ineffective and indeed counter productive Bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Australia Jewish Association has urged all MPs to reject this madness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coalition calls it <strong>unsalvageable<\/strong> over free speech fears, while Greens demand broader protections; both vow to block it without changes, stalling Prime Minister Albanese&#8217;s push despite an early parliamentary sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triggered by the December 14, 2025, attack where two Islamic State-inspired gunmen killed 15 at a Sydney celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":329541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[9031,19003,19276],"class_list":["post-349918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-bondi-beach-massacre","tag-hate-and-extremism-bill-2026"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349961,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349918\/revisions\/349961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}